Samsung’s SCH-LC11 CDMA / LTE mobile hotspot gets FCC approval, probably Verizon bound
We've heard rumors that Novatel is working on an LTE -enabled version of its MiFi for Verizon, likely for launch early next year -- but you've got to figure that a few other manufacturers would like a slice of that sweet, juicy 4G pie, right?
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: approval, device-right, fcc, hotspot, lte, novatel, Relationship, verizon, verizonwireless
Motorola sues Huawei and several former employees for stealing wireless trade secrets
Man, if you thought the lawsuit action in the mobile space was crazy before, well, you ain't seen nothing yet -- Motorola just sued Huawei and over a dozen former employees for conspiring to steal its wireless trade secrets and other proprietary technology over a period of years starting in 2001.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: airport, china, huaweiu8220, lawsuitsettlement, motorola, phones, proprietary, Relationship, secrets, tradesecrets, wireless, wireless-trade
LG kicks off T-Mobile relationship with Sentio, dLite, and GS170
Don't look for any crazy Android hardware here, but these three dumbphones are more notable than you might think: they mark the first time LG has hooked up with T-Mobile USA, believe it or not. The Sentio (pictured left) is the most interesting of the trio, featuring a 3-inch touchscreen, 3 megapixel cam with video capture, and support for visual voicemail. The dLite flip (middle) offers a nifty concealed LED array upfront -- a feature you see occasionally on Japanese and domestic Korean handsets, but rarely on American models -- along with a 2.8-inch display and a pair of color choices ("bubblegum" and "electric blue").
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: both-the-sentio, bubblegum, clamshell, engadget, handsets, mark-the-first, models, network, press, Relationship, sentio, summer
Nokia and Yahoo announce ‘worldwide strategic alliance’ on email, IM, maps, and more
Carol Bartz and Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEOs of Yahoo! and Nokia, respectively, are on stage right now announcing a "strategic relationship" between the two companies on some of their core services. Nokia will be using Yahoo to power its Ovi email and IM services, while Yahoo will be using Nokia / NAVTEQ's competencies for its mapping and navigation services. Developing...
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: ceos, friend-via, nokia, olli, pekka, pekka-kallasvuo, Relationship, yahoo
NTT DoCoMo shows off automatic email generator for mobiles (video)
Demonstrated at the Wireless Technology Park 2010 exhibition last week, this automatic email generator from NTT DoCoMo promises to take just three words' worth of input, whether spoken or typed in, and convert them into a fully fleshed out, anatomically correct email. An anthropomorphic genie creature serves as your guide on this journey into gimmick world, although some rather nice sophistication is also on the cards.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: automatic, automator, composition, draconian, exhibition, journey, Relationship
Clearwire sticking with WiMAX until at least 2012
Clearwire always seems to have commitment issue. Despite going steady with WiMAX , the company keeps saying that they might eventually part ways for different pastures -- namely LTE , should WiMAX turn out to be a dead end (talk about relationship pressure). That's still ongoing, as CEO Bill Morrow recently explained to CNET that its contract with Intel has been amended so that "either party can terminate the technology agreement within 30 days" but later adding that it definitely wouldn't hop on the LTE bandwagon before 2012
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: agreement, billmorrow, clear wire, entry, intel, lte, party, question-later, Relationship, strikes-down, technology, the-technology
Kin firmware torn apart, reveals provisioning for AT&T, T-Mobile, Fido?
In public, Microsoft has been adamant about its relationship with Verizon in bringing the Kin to market, even saying that the research and development process involved regular trips to Big Red's New Jersey offices -- but how strong is that bond behind the scenes? Well-established WinMo hacker Conflipper seems to have stumbled across a Kin ROM in recent days, tearing it apart in search of interesting tidbits, and here's a doozy: the firmware appears to be ready for provisioning on a variety of North American, European, and Asian carriers, including T-Mobile and AT&T in the US, Fido (a Rogers subsidiary) in Canada, O2, 3, TeliaSonera, China Mobile, China Unicom, Bharti Airtel for India, and both NTT DoCoMo and SoftBank in Japan
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: actually-going, carriers, china, fido, kin one, kin two, kinone, microsoft, provisioning, Relationship
Adobe halts investment in iPhone-specific Flash dev tools, has another dig at Apple
Color us unsurprised , but it's still notable to hear that Adobe is stopping investment in its software's capability to port content over to iPhone OS.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: adobe, chambers, final, iphone, iphoneos, mike chambers, packager, principal, Relationship, software development
Nokia N8 being announced mid-April
We've just been told by a trusted source that Nokia will announce a new flagship device dubbed N8 in the middle of next month. That's not around any major trade shows that we're aware of, but it is just before the company's Annual General Meeting in Helsinki -- and naturally, it doesn't hurt their relationship with major investors to have just introduced a killer new device. For what it's worth, we just saw a leaked photo yesterday morning of a Symbian^3-based phone purporting to be the N8, so this lines up rather nicely, doesn't it
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: annual, being-announced, entry, hear-otherwise, launch, meeting, Relationship, retail-launch, rumor, trusted-source
NFL bringing RedZone channel to phones next season
The NFL has announced that it'll be bringing its all-action, all-the-time RedZone content to cellphones in time for next season, offering tons of game-day coverage on the go to anyone willing to pay the price.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: cbs, def, engadget, entry, fox, nfl, nfl redzone, nflredzone, nflredzonechannel, phone, Relationship, result, simply-everything